TOKYO -- Back in the early 1970s, Tadashi Yanai headed back to the old coal mining town of Ube, southwest of Hiroshima, to take a job managing his family's tailor shop.
Then in his mid-20s, the hard-charging Yanai very quickly made the store a place employees did not want to work. "Six of the seven employees quit," Yanai admitted during a wide-ranging interview with The Nikkei. "Until then, I had thought business management was not for me."
